Coronary Heart Disease Patients Live Longer, But Not Always Happier, Lives

 15.07.2008 20:13   medicalnewstoday.com

Better treatments have improved survival in people with coronary heart disease, but the quality of those extra years may be less than ideal, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Compared with adults without coronary heart disease (CHD), adults with CHD scored up to 9 percent lower on four scales measuring "quality of life.

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